Aria Sabit
What good are kids if they can't help dad hide money from the feds?
Robert Snell reports that the FBI alleges in a court document that jailed Bloomfield Hills doctor Aria Sabit, accused of fraud in a series of spinal surgeries, allegedly laundered money by stashing as much as $600,000 in the bank accounts of his two children, 8 and 10.
FBI Special Agent Peter Hayes aired the allegation in a federal search warrant affidavit unsealed this week in U.S. District Court. Hayes wanted permission to seize money in the two accounts, saying there was probable cause to believe the money was proceeds of fraud and money laundering.
The doctor's attorney has asked U.S. District Judge Paul Borman will release him from custody pending trial. Sabit is accused of cheating insurers and patients by promising certain spinal surgeries but performing other procedures on the back, The News writes.
